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TRAVELS IN AMERICA 1851-1855.
by Roos, Rosalie (1823-1898); Sigrid Laurell and Carl L. Anderson, editors
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 080931018X
- ISBN 13
- 9780809310180
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About This Item
Carbondale, IL:: Swedish Pioneer Historical Society / Southern Illinois University Press,, (1982). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First edition. Letters and diary entries by Roos, who left the constraints she felt doomed to as a woman in Sweden in the 1850s and so traveled to America to test her ability to be independent, spending four years on a plantation in South Carolina as a governess, just as the slavery debate was entering its most heated phase. She comments on contrasts: freedom and slavery, cold and heat, great industriousness and total apathy, but when she returns to Sweden, confident in her independence, she has only scorn for the arguments she heard espousing the "good" of slavery. As she pleaded for the rights of women in Sweden, she drew analogies between those theories of slavery and the treatment of women. Translated and with a preface by Carl L. Anderson, who notes that at the end of the 19th century she was recognized as one of the 'three pioneering women and leaders who transformed social and economic conditions for women.'Photographs, footnotes. xvi, 152 pp.
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- Title
- TRAVELS IN AMERICA 1851-1855.
- Author
- Roos, Rosalie (1823-1898); Sigrid Laurell and Carl L. Anderson, editors
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 080931018X
- ISBN 13
- 9780809310180
- Publisher
- Swedish Pioneer Historical Society / Southern Illinois University Press,
- Place of Publication
- Carbondale, IL:
- Date Published
- (1982)
- Keywords
- diaries, south carolina, slavery, rights of women, sweden, literature in translation, travel and exploration,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women's Studies;
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